- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 01:38:40 +0000 (UTC)
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, liorean wrote: > > [...] Interesting summary of the possibilities. > Well, the obvious problems with [not caring about creating duplicate IDs > in the face of misnested tags] are for things like ::before in CSS or > getElementById in the DOM. We have two different #Y elements, not a > single one. I actually don't think that's a big deal. In practice both Safari and Mozilla do this and it hasn't been a big problem. > Anyway, what I'm saying here is that there are a lot of different ways > to tackle this, and none of them does the right thing in all situations. > Particularly the DOM is hard to get a good representation of, because > the source breaks the single parent relation. I don't know which one > would be best from a backwards compatibility perspective, but I'd like > to see as simple a solution as possible. Agreed. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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